Malware Architectural View with Performance Analysis in Network at Its Activation State

Abstract

Malware is an international issue which results in the loss of integrity, security, and authenticity. Some malwares work autonomously whereas some malware use a host and some malware change their identity each time. Researchers are constantly working for the defense mechanism. This paper focuses to analyze malware architecture to give a detailed study of malware which can be helpful to design a strong defense mechanism. Although many authors analyzed and classified the malwares in several categories, this paper classifies malware into four categories as per their architecture at the time of infection and discusses the mechanism behind the malware architectures. This paper also observed the performance of network at the time of infection.